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==Government and politics== Prior to [[Voting Rights Act of 1965|the 1965 Voting Rights Act]], Greene County was an overwhelmingly Democratic “[[Solid South]]” bastion. Between 1932 and 1956, every Democratic nominee reached 93.5 percent of the county's vote, and up to 1960 [[Herbert Hoover]] in the religiously polarized 1928 election had been the only post-[[Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era|disfranchisement]] Republican to pass 22 percent of the county's vote. Unlike the Black Belts of the Deep South, Greene County completely resisted the [[Dixiecrat]] movement of 1948 to be only 0.07 percent shy of Texas’ [[Duval County, Texas|Duval County]] as [[Harry Truman]]’s strongest in the country,<ref>Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas; [https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1948&f=1&off=0&elect=0 1948 Presidential Election Statistics]</ref> and in 1952 it was indeed [[Adlai Stevenson II]]’s strongest county in his landslide loss to [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]],<ref>Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas; [https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1952&f=1&off=0&elect=0 1952 Presidential Election Statistics]</ref> besides being his strongest behind [[Baker County, Georgia|Georgia's Baker County]] in 1956.<ref>Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas; [https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1956&f=1&off=0&elect=0 1956 Presidential Election Statistics]</ref> However, opposition to the voting and civil rights legislation of the [[Lyndon Johnson]] administration turned the county over to [[George Wallace]] in the 1968 presidential election, and [[Richard Nixon]] became the first Republican winner since [[Benjamin Harrison]] in 1888<ref>Menendez, Albert J.; ''The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004'', pp. 265-270 {{ISBN|0786422173}}</ref> with 75 percent of the vote in 1972. Since then, Greene County has gradually become Republican-leaning: the last Democratic presidential candidate to carry the county was [[Bill Clinton]] in 1992, although no Democrat except [[George McGovern|McGovern]] and [[Hubert Humphrey|Humphrey]] has fallen under 40 percent. {{PresHead|place=Greene County, North Carolina|whig=no|source1=<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|last=Leip|first=David|website=uselectionatlas.org|access-date=March 15, 2018}}</ref>}} <!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP/Whig vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} -->{{PresRow|2024|Republican|4,965|3,437|48|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|2020|Republican|4,874|3,832|47|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|2016|Republican|4,374|3,605|116|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|2012|Republican|4,411|3,778|47|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|2008|Republican|4,272|3,796|35|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|2004|Republican|3,800|2,665|7|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|2000|Republican|3,353|2,478|39|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1996|Republican|2,689|2,224|285|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1992|Democratic|2,180|2,768|784|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1988|Democratic|2,498|2,729|11|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1984|Republican|3,195|2,772|8|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1980|Democratic|2,221|2,835|57|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1976|Democratic|1,356|2,740|28|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1972|Republican|2,788|847|49|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1968|American Independent|650|1,560|2,906|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1964|Democratic|901|2,712|0|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1960|Democratic|451|3,092|0|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1956|Democratic|222|3,285|0|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1952|Democratic|186|2,976|0|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1948|Democratic|65|2,687|34|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1944|Democratic|113|2,528|0|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1940|Democratic|104|2,990|0|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1936|Democratic|116|3,097|0|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1932|Democratic|94|2,510|3|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1928|Democratic|542|1,181|0|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1924|Democratic|182|1,119|7|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1920|Democratic|439|1,649|0|North Carolina}} {{PresRow|1916|Democratic|294|1,066|0|North Carolina}} {{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|124|894|152|North Carolina}} Greene County is represented by Republican Senator [[Buck Newton]] in [[North Carolina's 4th Senate district]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Senator Buck Newton (REP) |url=https://www.ncleg.gov/Members/Biography/S/443 |access-date=May 16, 2023 |website=www.ncleg.gov}}</ref> Greene County is a member of the regional [[Councils of governments in North Carolina|Eastern Carolina Council of Governments]].
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